Books with author David Shale

Animals and UsAnimals and Us is a beautiful collection of illustrated childrens short stories, written from the point of view of endangered species and how they encounter their changing environments.As readers, we learn to empathise with the sometimes life-and-death struggle each creature faces. We also witness their resourcefulness, as they compete to survive in a habitat changed by the humans around them.An eclectic mix of birds, beast and butterflies, Animals and Us transports us across the planet and under oceans.Written for children of all ages, each story is a thought-provoking, imaginative and uncompromising voyage into the animals minds eye, and the effect we are all having on our precious world.Illustrator and author, David G Shaw (1942 2016) won acclaim from family and friends for this charming and original collection of childrens short stories, now published for the very first time.

The Year is 1341 and the behaviour of the very spoiled Prince Edward is going from bad to worse. He waits at the great castle at Dover for news of his father King Edward the third who is missing and presumed drowned. The prince must hurry to Westminster to be crowned king before his crown is usurped by one of many rivals. As the prince travels in the magnificent royal galley from the port of Sandwich along the ancient Roman waterway known as The Wantsum Channel a fog descends and the galley hits a sand bank and the prince, who is relieving his bowels at the boat's side, is deposited in the drink. When he gets back to dry land he is unrecognized and presumed an idiot. His pompous and bossy ways get him into no end of trouble. He is forced to become a common fisherman and learns the hard way what life is like for his humblest subjects.